At around 07:00 today (5/7/12) British armed police have closed the M6 motorway, surrounded a bus/coach and got out their hazardous material kit after a passenger was seen "behaving suspiciously." What appears to be a anti-terrorist incident now (10:30) seems to be ending safely.
This is actually a much more dramatic version of an incident that happened to me on a bus journey between Madrid and Barcelona in Spain in I think 2006. Therefore apart from the obvious pre-Olympic al-Qaeda terrorism element this seems to be Britain's response to a bank seige/mass shooting that took place in Germany yesterday (4/7/12). I've no idea what the Germany incident was about but Britain are clearly trying to find out if it had anything to do with the LIBOR scandal.
Continuing with the al-Qaeda/Olympic theme London's Metropolitan police have today arrested six Muslims in Ealing and Newham in London. While I don't want to get into a position of laying down a challenge I actually think the chances of al-Qaeda attacking the Olympics are incredibly small. With the pull-out from Afghanistan, the situation in Syria, the situation in Libya and the knock-on effects in Mali al-Qaeda are actually in the strongest position they've been in for years. Therefore I think they're unlikely to jeopardise that by causing an atrocity on the global stage. However the US' drone program has significantly degraded the al-Qaeda leadership and communication channels so some British based lone-wolves might try something stupid but it's likely to be just something stupid.
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